WEBVTT - Barbara Stone on John's Primary Strategy 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:03.120 And we continue at one oh five in the afternoon 0:00:03.160 --> 0:00:08.760 on The John Phillips Show, broadcasting live from Cairo in Seattle, Washington. 0:00:09.560 --> 0:00:12.600 Mister Randy Wiggs in Culver City, John. 0:00:12.400 --> 0:00:15.640 We have an update on the Sandy fire that is 0:00:15.680 --> 0:00:18.239 burning in Siam Valley. Is now up to about five 0:00:18.360 --> 0:00:21.759 hundred acres. There are mandatory evacuations. You can check that 0:00:21.800 --> 0:00:25.079 out at emergency dot Ventura County dot gov. We have 0:00:25.160 --> 0:00:28.400 seen some structures threatened. It's not looking great out there. 0:00:29.520 --> 0:00:32.280 No, it is not so if you're in Ventura County, 0:00:32.360 --> 0:00:35.319 stay safe because these fires can move at a very 0:00:35.400 --> 0:00:39.040 rapid pace. Eight hundred two two two five two two 0:00:39.080 --> 0:00:42.000 two is telephone number one. Eight hundred two two two 0:00:42.200 --> 0:00:44.840 five two two two. It is our pleasure to welcome 0:00:44.880 --> 0:00:47.159 our next guest to the program. She is a professor 0:00:47.200 --> 0:00:51.040 of political science emeritus at California State University at Fullerton. 0:00:51.240 --> 0:00:52.360 Professor Barbara Stone. 0:00:52.479 --> 0:00:55.279 Welcome, Hi, John, welcome back. 0:00:55.880 --> 0:01:01.000 Well, thank you so Earlier today I talked about a 0:01:01.000 --> 0:01:03.320 lot of the emails that I've been getting from people 0:01:03.480 --> 0:01:06.679 who are upset with me for saying that Republicans should 0:01:06.680 --> 0:01:11.440 play for both spots on the November ballot. That is 0:01:11.520 --> 0:01:15.200 the only path forward I see for a Republican governor 0:01:15.400 --> 0:01:19.000 in California, and given the turnout numbers that we have 0:01:19.160 --> 0:01:22.480 so far, and of course those can change. Democrats could 0:01:22.520 --> 0:01:26.080 strategically be holding on to their ballots until the very 0:01:26.160 --> 0:01:28.880 last minute, and those numbers could change wildly. 0:01:28.959 --> 0:01:29.560 We don't know. 0:01:29.720 --> 0:01:32.280 That's the future. If we could see the future, I 0:01:32.280 --> 0:01:35.720 don't think we'd be working right now. But the way 0:01:35.760 --> 0:01:38.080 I see it is that is the best if not 0:01:38.280 --> 0:01:42.000 only play at winning and trying to get behind one 0:01:42.120 --> 0:01:46.480 candidate to make it a Republican versus a Democratic race 0:01:46.640 --> 0:01:50.880 in November is a sure way to lose your thoughts. 0:01:52.760 --> 0:01:56.160 My first thought is I hope that your listeners understand 0:01:56.200 --> 0:01:59.520 that you are by far the most intelligent voice on 0:01:59.560 --> 0:02:04.240 this sub checked out there, and no one else seems 0:02:04.280 --> 0:02:07.560 to quite get it. And that doesn't mean they have 0:02:07.680 --> 0:02:09.880 to do what you're telling them, but they need to 0:02:09.919 --> 0:02:12.760 listen because it's the best information they're going to get. 0:02:13.400 --> 0:02:20.720 As far as what Republican voters should do. 0:02:19.080 --> 0:02:20.679 They actually. 0:02:22.680 --> 0:02:26.239 John Sometimes I think I'm about to say something truly 0:02:26.320 --> 0:02:29.400 profound that's just out of step with the way normal 0:02:29.440 --> 0:02:34.040 people think. In this particular case, what I'm going to 0:02:34.080 --> 0:02:38.160 say is your listeners have a choice. If they haven't 0:02:38.240 --> 0:02:42.680 voted yet, they can do what you repeated or Ingram 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:47.280 is having urged, which is get together vote for Steve Hilton, 0:02:47.360 --> 0:02:51.240 and then we won't be embarrassed by not having a 0:02:51.320 --> 0:02:52.799 Republican in the runoff. 0:02:53.919 --> 0:02:54.359 John. 0:02:55.320 --> 0:02:59.959 That's fine if that's how you think. Unfortunately, at this moment, 0:03:00.320 --> 0:03:05.920 the California Republican Party is an embarrassment. And I can 0:03:06.160 --> 0:03:09.040 tell you how it got there over many years. But 0:03:09.160 --> 0:03:13.360 the bottom line is we're not going to win. I 0:03:13.400 --> 0:03:16.280 don't care who we run for governor. That person will 0:03:16.320 --> 0:03:19.880 get plus or minus forty percent, the Democrat will get 0:03:19.880 --> 0:03:23.040 the sixty percent, and that will be the end of it. 0:03:23.560 --> 0:03:26.760 But just look at what happened two years ago with 0:03:26.880 --> 0:03:30.760 the US Senate when Adam Schiff beat Steve Garvey. Steve 0:03:30.800 --> 0:03:34.239 Garvey absolutely stopped campaigning, but it didn't really matter. He 0:03:34.320 --> 0:03:38.240 got about what Republicans get. So if that to you 0:03:38.960 --> 0:03:41.920 is making us look good so we can cover up 0:03:41.960 --> 0:03:44.960 how bad we are, how weak we are in this state, 0:03:45.440 --> 0:03:48.880 then fine, you should vote that way. If, on the 0:03:48.920 --> 0:03:52.680 other hand, you want even some little chance of winning, 0:03:53.880 --> 0:03:57.680 it's small, but the chance of winning that by the 0:03:57.680 --> 0:04:02.280 way is causing mat hysteria among the Democrats. 0:04:02.320 --> 0:04:03.800 That's worth it for itself. 0:04:04.720 --> 0:04:06.920 Then what you do is you try to go to 0:04:06.960 --> 0:04:10.960 the Hilton Bianco bit. I don't know if it will work, 0:04:11.680 --> 0:04:15.760 but it would be a giant something if you could 0:04:15.800 --> 0:04:18.680 pull it off, and you would at least have some 0:04:18.839 --> 0:04:21.800 chance of winning. Now, if you've given up on winning, 0:04:21.880 --> 0:04:25.720 it doesn't matter, does it, Which is also part of 0:04:25.760 --> 0:04:28.320 what's wrong with the party in the state and what 0:04:28.520 --> 0:04:29.320 makes us a joke. 0:04:29.440 --> 0:04:31.039 So you could argue who cares? 0:04:31.760 --> 0:04:34.800 But I don't know. I like to have, when presented 0:04:34.839 --> 0:04:40.240 with an opportunity, at least take the chance. The only 0:04:40.320 --> 0:04:46.560 really funny thing I wonder how many people are registering 0:04:46.920 --> 0:04:51.159 what you're urging people to do. I am in a 0:04:51.240 --> 0:04:55.279 place where I interact with significant numbers of people who 0:04:55.320 --> 0:05:00.719 are educated and quite well to do. You can't believe 0:05:00.800 --> 0:05:03.560 the people I'm finding that don't even know we have 0:05:03.600 --> 0:05:07.480 a top two system. So it's hard to explain this 0:05:07.560 --> 0:05:10.680 to them in terms of the top two primary if 0:05:10.720 --> 0:05:16.160 they don't want, no, we have one, and I would say, well, 0:05:16.240 --> 0:05:19.000 you'd be shocked at the people who, oh, really did 0:05:19.040 --> 0:05:19.560 we do that? 0:05:19.800 --> 0:05:20.919 Yeah, honey, we did that. 0:05:22.200 --> 0:05:24.279 But it's hard to get people to focus on that 0:05:24.400 --> 0:05:25.240 when they don't. 0:05:25.040 --> 0:05:25.680 Know you haven't. 0:05:26.920 --> 0:05:27.960 It's so funny to me. 0:05:28.120 --> 0:05:30.599 And I'm sure there's something out there in the world 0:05:30.600 --> 0:05:34.080 of psychology that could explain this. But if you're part 0:05:34.080 --> 0:05:38.279 of a group that consistently loses, whether it's sports, whether 0:05:38.400 --> 0:05:44.080 it's in politics, whatever, you just kind of accept it, 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:47.480 and you kind of sign on to this psychology of losing, 0:05:48.080 --> 0:05:50.359 and you in your mind, you know how you're going 0:05:50.400 --> 0:05:53.920 to lose, you know what the beats are, and you're 0:05:54.000 --> 0:05:57.120 just kind of ready for it. And it seems like 0:05:57.520 --> 0:06:01.600 with these emails that I get it is, well, what 0:06:01.640 --> 0:06:04.440 you're saying isn't going to work, so what's the point 0:06:04.440 --> 0:06:08.080 of even trying. And then number two is and the 0:06:08.120 --> 0:06:10.680 system is rigged against us anyway, so we're going to 0:06:10.760 --> 0:06:11.880 lose for that reason. 0:06:12.320 --> 0:06:14.240 And they just go on and on and on and 0:06:14.320 --> 0:06:15.400 on and on, and. 0:06:15.320 --> 0:06:18.400 They list me all of these reasons why the one 0:06:18.520 --> 0:06:22.600 opportunity they have to win isn't going to work, and 0:06:22.839 --> 0:06:25.600 I just can't wrap my head around that. I mean, 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:28.360 maybe I don't know, I don't have a background in 0:06:28.400 --> 0:06:32.400 that world, but it's a crazy way to look at things. 0:06:33.560 --> 0:06:36.240 Well, I'm no psychologists, but I do know you can 0:06:36.279 --> 0:06:40.640 get into a loser mentality. And I'm not even going 0:06:40.720 --> 0:06:43.719 to say these are bad people. We've lost so much. 0:06:43.800 --> 0:06:46.440 I can understand going, well, it's not worth the effort 0:06:46.600 --> 0:06:52.000 because I were, we're not going to win anyway. Of course, 0:06:52.000 --> 0:06:56.200 if that's how you feel, then why well, First of all, 0:06:56.240 --> 0:07:00.240 those people may not vote, that's number one. Secondarily, though 0:07:00.240 --> 0:07:03.240 they're clearly paying attention, or they wouldn't be listening to you. 0:07:04.160 --> 0:07:06.599 They're the kind of people who should take the jump, 0:07:06.880 --> 0:07:08.680 take the leap. Why not? 0:07:08.960 --> 0:07:10.200 What have you got to lose? 0:07:11.400 --> 0:07:15.120 And if nothing else you go, what could you accomplish? 0:07:15.240 --> 0:07:19.440 Or you would really upset the Democrats if that actually happened. 0:07:19.880 --> 0:07:22.480 In fact, the Democrats know they can't let it happen. 0:07:22.560 --> 0:07:26.960 Have you seen that rather awful ad where they've pieced 0:07:26.960 --> 0:07:29.880 together I don't know what they are making Chad by 0:07:30.000 --> 0:07:33.840 uncle look like he's pro immigrant or illegal immigrant? 0:07:34.040 --> 0:07:35.960 Oh yeah, I saw that one. 0:07:36.240 --> 0:07:36.800 Yeah. 0:07:36.840 --> 0:07:39.280 Well, if what I read is true, and then they 0:07:39.320 --> 0:07:42.840 pair it with Donald Trump endorsing Steve Hilton and say 0:07:42.920 --> 0:07:46.200 this is paid for by Steve Hilton for governor twenty 0:07:46.280 --> 0:07:53.160 twenty six, that's I read actually paid for by the 0:07:53.320 --> 0:07:59.400 Democratic Governors Association, and that what they did when they 0:07:59.560 --> 0:08:05.200 were oh their version of copywriting names for their pack 0:08:05.360 --> 0:08:09.080 that operates here. One of the names is Steve Hilton 0:08:09.160 --> 0:08:13.600 for Governor twenty twenty six, something like, sponsored by patriots 0:08:13.600 --> 0:08:16.920 who want to make sure no Republican gets elected governor. 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:18.560 So that. 0:08:20.400 --> 0:08:26.320 Was National Democrat money to make sure that what your 0:08:26.360 --> 0:08:29.280 people won't vote for didn't happen. 0:08:29.440 --> 0:08:31.120 I don't know. Something's wrong with that picture. 0:08:31.840 --> 0:08:35.319 And that should tell you something. If the Democratic Party 0:08:35.440 --> 0:08:38.040 is spending money telling you not to do what I'm 0:08:38.040 --> 0:08:41.199 telling you to do or what I'm telling you to consider, 0:08:41.960 --> 0:08:43.360 you know that's the threat. 0:08:44.800 --> 0:08:47.559 Yep, they can figure it out. 0:08:49.600 --> 0:08:52.920 Oh, John, I can't be mad at people for not 0:08:52.960 --> 0:08:57.000 seeing things as clearly as some of us do. But seriously, 0:08:57.080 --> 0:09:00.480 you guys, if that's how you look at it, there's 0:09:00.640 --> 0:09:05.760 no risk here. Okay, it's not like your If you 0:09:05.880 --> 0:09:08.520 believe it's all fixed and we can't do this and 0:09:08.559 --> 0:09:11.839 we can't do that, then there's no risk. Go for 0:09:12.200 --> 0:09:16.640 the two Republicans and if you get it, what a 0:09:16.640 --> 0:09:17.880 wonderful time we'll have. 0:09:19.559 --> 0:09:23.000 Let's shift gears here for a second and talk about 0:09:23.040 --> 0:09:28.040 these turnout numbers so far among Democrats, and these numbers 0:09:28.120 --> 0:09:31.600 are nowhere near where the Democratic Party wants them to be. 0:09:32.360 --> 0:09:35.480 How much of that do you think is them hanging 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:38.840 on to their ballots strategically to vote at the last 0:09:38.880 --> 0:09:42.880 minute because they don't know which Democrat will emerge as 0:09:42.960 --> 0:09:46.040 the front runner. And how much of it is them 0:09:46.280 --> 0:09:49.120 not knowing what the hell to do because no one 0:09:49.240 --> 0:09:51.760 is telling them what to do, Not Galvin Newsom, not 0:09:51.880 --> 0:09:56.080 Nancy Pelosi, not Kamala Harris, none of them. 0:09:58.200 --> 0:09:58.760 Two things. 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:00.920 One I think that you're point on that that you 0:10:00.960 --> 0:10:04.960 were making earlier is a really good one. And with 0:10:05.440 --> 0:10:09.000 their big leaders not telling them who to vote for, 0:10:10.880 --> 0:10:14.360 they may not even really realize there's an election. You know, 0:10:17.080 --> 0:10:20.240 there's no big stuff out there. No one's excited over 0:10:20.280 --> 0:10:26.480 these subernatorial candidates. There are no ballot propositions that are 0:10:26.520 --> 0:10:31.160 spending billions of dollars. They just may not really be focusing. 0:10:31.679 --> 0:10:36.760 What I think might also have an influence. I tried 0:10:36.840 --> 0:10:40.040 looking one of the sets of numbers I saw looking 0:10:40.120 --> 0:10:44.160 at the raw numbers, and actually from twenty twenty two, 0:10:44.320 --> 0:10:49.360 at that point, the raw number of Democrats wasn't that 0:10:49.600 --> 0:10:53.720 far off. If that's all you looked at. What was 0:10:53.880 --> 0:11:00.120 off was the relatively speaking significant increase in republic It 0:11:00.200 --> 0:11:04.920 can turn out now you could read that as more enthusiasm. 0:11:05.760 --> 0:11:09.240 It seems to me possible, although I don't know anyway. 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:14.240 It seems to me possible that remember during Trump's first administration, 0:11:15.000 --> 0:11:19.120 he and all the other top people were going, the 0:11:19.160 --> 0:11:24.760 system's rigged, they're stealing ballots. Vote on election day, do 0:11:24.920 --> 0:11:29.120 not mail in ballots. Vote on election day. And I 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:31.960 can tell you there's still a lot of Republicans who 0:11:32.040 --> 0:11:35.040 get very nervous at the idea of mailing in ballots. 0:11:35.600 --> 0:11:38.400 But it strikes me as possible that we've moved on 0:11:38.640 --> 0:11:44.239 enough from that that you're seeing Republicans who are perfectly 0:11:44.320 --> 0:11:47.240 happy to vote and who've gotten over that don't mail 0:11:47.280 --> 0:11:50.640 it in, In which case I'm not quite sure how 0:11:50.679 --> 0:11:54.520 to interpret this, except I'll take it, and your listeners 0:11:54.520 --> 0:11:57.880 should always remember when they talk about independence, we don't 0:11:57.960 --> 0:12:03.359 know squad about those people, except that there are very 0:12:03.400 --> 0:12:07.200 few true independents in this world. So they all tend 0:12:07.200 --> 0:12:09.280 to vote consistently one party or the other. 0:12:09.400 --> 0:12:11.000 We just don't know which these are. 0:12:12.640 --> 0:12:15.040 What do you make of the fact that Matt Mahon 0:12:15.880 --> 0:12:20.320 who is running as a relatively successful big city mayor 0:12:20.360 --> 0:12:25.560 in California against an awful field of Democratic candidates, that 0:12:25.640 --> 0:12:30.199 there is no appetite for him in the Democratic Party. 0:12:32.080 --> 0:12:35.920 I've tried to come up with any sort of positive 0:12:35.960 --> 0:12:39.240 explanation for that, and all I can say is that 0:12:39.280 --> 0:12:42.680 what drives the Democrat Party in this state is nationally 0:12:43.559 --> 0:12:50.600 are the way out progressives who are defining themselves as 0:12:50.679 --> 0:12:55.559 democratic socialists and they have no use for the man. 0:12:56.480 --> 0:12:57.200 Just leave it at that. 0:12:58.960 --> 0:13:02.079 Well, and it's not just him, because Antonio Viragosu was 0:13:02.120 --> 0:13:05.440 trying to brand himself the same way as a Democrat 0:13:05.480 --> 0:13:09.960 who is competent enough to deliver services to the people 0:13:10.000 --> 0:13:13.360 that Democrats care about and do it without busting the 0:13:13.400 --> 0:13:18.559 budget that in the old days was a new deal Democrat. 0:13:19.320 --> 0:13:23.280 Yep, no, no, But in today's Democrat Party, at least 0:13:23.280 --> 0:13:26.439 at the activist level, there's no place for him. We 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:31.520 should scare everybody in this state which republic can stop 0:13:31.640 --> 0:13:34.959 sitting there twiddling your thumbs. Take this gamble and if 0:13:35.000 --> 0:13:38.760 it doesn't work, take the next one. For heaven's sakes, people, 0:13:40.400 --> 0:13:44.880 Oh well, what can we do? But yeah, no, I'm there, 0:13:45.120 --> 0:13:47.880 and I've heard where he's not exciting. Oh come on, 0:13:48.040 --> 0:13:49.600 hobby or but Sarah's exciting. 0:13:49.679 --> 0:13:53.240 Give me a break. Although have I told you? Have 0:13:53.360 --> 0:13:53.920 I told you? 0:13:53.960 --> 0:13:57.760 My one awful level, My favorite candidate is Katie Porter 0:14:00.440 --> 0:14:07.240 that she's actually pretty smart. She is incredibly condescending. She 0:14:07.400 --> 0:14:11.200 can't help her personality, and what she says about the 0:14:11.240 --> 0:14:13.839 others when they get on stage is worth the price 0:14:13.880 --> 0:14:14.520 of admission. 0:14:16.480 --> 0:14:19.120 Well, her problem is not that she's dumb. Her problem 0:14:19.160 --> 0:14:24.520 is that she has the personality of an hoa. 0:14:23.920 --> 0:14:26.360 Except a little louder. Yeah, no, I buy that. 0:14:26.560 --> 0:14:28.880 In fact, the only thing I wish I was seeing, 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:32.400 because you realize she did twice called Chad Bionco cowboy. 0:14:34.880 --> 0:14:37.200 I think that's wonderful. He should have run an ad 0:14:37.280 --> 0:14:39.000 with vote for a cowboy Bianco. 0:14:39.520 --> 0:14:40.760 But what can we do here? 0:14:43.280 --> 0:14:43.680 All right? 0:14:44.360 --> 0:14:47.600 La is having a mary oral race right now, and 0:14:47.720 --> 0:14:51.000 Spencer Pratt is coming on very strong. We're now the 0:14:51.000 --> 0:14:55.000 betting markets have him as a solid favorite as making 0:14:55.040 --> 0:14:59.520 the November runoff. Originally, Karen Bass wanted to run against 0:14:59.520 --> 0:15:04.080 Spencer and not Nythia Ramen. It was reported this weekend 0:15:04.240 --> 0:15:07.840 that her strategy has now changed, where now she doesn't 0:15:07.840 --> 0:15:11.000 want to run against Spencer Pratt in the November matchup, 0:15:11.360 --> 0:15:14.640 she would prefer to run against Nitthia Rahmen in part 0:15:14.720 --> 0:15:17.520 because of Nitthia Rahman's poor performance at the debate. 0:15:18.760 --> 0:15:21.040 You mean the fact she didn't know which way was. 0:15:21.120 --> 0:15:23.280 Up that one. 0:15:24.080 --> 0:15:29.280 Yeah, we've got the right woman. This ties into something 0:15:29.360 --> 0:15:31.880 I was saying a moment ago, John, about the low 0:15:31.960 --> 0:15:40.120 level of information of American voters in LA. Remember that 0:15:40.360 --> 0:15:43.800 Pratt should be just dead on arrivals because he is 0:15:43.840 --> 0:15:47.360 a Republican in a city where what do they even 0:15:47.400 --> 0:15:53.320 have a quarter of them registered Republicans. However, it's a 0:15:53.360 --> 0:15:58.000 non partisan race, and you go, oh, everyone knows he's 0:15:58.040 --> 0:16:01.360 a Republican, No, darling, everybody he does not know he's 0:16:01.400 --> 0:16:04.800 the Republican. So you're going on whether or not he 0:16:04.840 --> 0:16:11.240 can break through people's consciousness, and boy has he? You 0:16:11.280 --> 0:16:14.040 know whose consciousness? By the way, John, he's broken through 0:16:14.160 --> 0:16:17.600 on is the media. He puts on a show for them. 0:16:17.720 --> 0:16:20.320 He knows how to do that. That's more or less 0:16:20.360 --> 0:16:27.600 what he did. And they're slurping it up. And I'm 0:16:27.680 --> 0:16:31.040 not on social media, but my sister sends me the 0:16:31.080 --> 0:16:34.400 ads people are running on his behalf good happen in 0:16:34.600 --> 0:16:37.840 heaven here comes Batman to save the city of La. 0:16:38.600 --> 0:16:43.120 It's a tremendous show. People are paying attention. I don't 0:16:43.160 --> 0:16:46.560 think you have people who are just invested in and 0:16:46.640 --> 0:16:48.120 Karen Bass because. 0:16:47.840 --> 0:16:48.760 They like her. 0:16:50.640 --> 0:16:54.520 I think it's entirely possible under the circumstances that he 0:16:54.600 --> 0:16:58.680 can get in the runoff. By the way you do 0:16:58.840 --> 0:17:02.920 parallels or to the Dick Rardon times when you had 0:17:03.000 --> 0:17:07.080 serious problems. La has serious problems that all kinds of 0:17:07.119 --> 0:17:12.000 people recognize. And so while I'm certainly not saying he 0:17:12.080 --> 0:17:16.720 could win, I'm certainly not saying that anybody voting for 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:19.080 Nicia Rahman is going to turn around and vote for 0:17:19.119 --> 0:17:23.560 Spencer Pratt. But you know, you never know what people do, 0:17:23.640 --> 0:17:26.600 and if you don't get in the runoffs, then it 0:17:26.640 --> 0:17:27.400 doesn't really matter. 0:17:27.560 --> 0:17:31.879 Doesn't how hard of a job is the California Democratic 0:17:31.880 --> 0:17:35.520 Party going to have turning people out in November if 0:17:35.520 --> 0:17:39.440 they have Karen Bass on the ballot, who nobody gets 0:17:39.480 --> 0:17:42.919 worked up over, who likes her. If you have a 0:17:43.000 --> 0:17:45.800 Democratic nominee for governor that no one wanted in the 0:17:45.840 --> 0:17:50.880 first place, and you have three or four competitive congressional 0:17:50.920 --> 0:17:55.280 elections in the state, and everything else is a foregone conclusion, 0:17:55.800 --> 0:17:57.879 how do you get people excited. 0:17:57.400 --> 0:17:58.280 To vote. 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:05.320 Democrat Party? Yeah, you have a real part problem. My 0:18:05.440 --> 0:18:08.520 best guess is what you do Now, I'm totally making 0:18:08.520 --> 0:18:11.800 this up. If you're a good consultant, you look, I 0:18:11.880 --> 0:18:16.760 can't get people excited over my candidates. And in fact, 0:18:18.040 --> 0:18:21.760 four years ago, like for Karen bath as I recalled, 0:18:21.760 --> 0:18:25.879 they brought Joe Biden out. I know, the lovely Kamala 0:18:25.920 --> 0:18:29.600 was here, but they brought every high ranking Democrat in 0:18:29.640 --> 0:18:33.040 the country out. Well, I don't think Joe could find 0:18:33.080 --> 0:18:35.280 his way here this year. And I'm not really sure 0:18:35.320 --> 0:18:41.160 anyone wants Kamala. Oh god, that moment. I'm sorry, that's 0:18:41.200 --> 0:18:44.480 not nice, that's petty. But so you're going to look. 0:18:44.520 --> 0:18:49.040 And if I were, which I definitely am not a 0:18:49.080 --> 0:18:53.400 consultant worrying about that, I would go, Okay, what's going 0:18:53.440 --> 0:18:56.320 to be on the ballot? There are going to be 0:18:56.440 --> 0:18:59.680 some things on the ballot that people are spending big 0:19:00.040 --> 0:19:04.800 money on, and some the Billionaire's tax by the way, 0:19:04.840 --> 0:19:08.000 being one of them. And somewhere I need to work 0:19:08.119 --> 0:19:11.639 myself in there so that when they spend lots of 0:19:11.680 --> 0:19:14.400 money to get people out, I can piggyback on it. 0:19:14.920 --> 0:19:20.480 And like the billionaires tax, that straight up union, and 0:19:20.520 --> 0:19:22.399 then you will have all the money spent on the 0:19:22.440 --> 0:19:25.000 other side. I would look at the what are going 0:19:25.040 --> 0:19:27.520 to seem like the big issues, because I don't think 0:19:27.560 --> 0:19:30.760 people are going to get excited over these candidates. 0:19:31.080 --> 0:19:35.879 Michael Right, Professor, barbar Stone, Professor of Political Science Emeritus 0:19:35.920 --> 0:19:38.960 at California State University at Fullerton. 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We're gonna be 0:21:22.520 --> 0:21:25.879 live on seven ninety KABC, We're gonna be live on 0:21:25.960 --> 0:21:29.439 eight ten KSFO, and yes, we are also going to 0:21:29.440 --> 0:21:34.480 be live on five eighty the Big KMJ in Fresno. 0:21:34.840 --> 0:21:36.080 And right now it's. 0:21:35.920 --> 0:21:38.960 Time to open up the California Crime blodder. 0:21:40.000 --> 0:21:47.000 It's happened yet again, nye See. Time for the California 0:21:47.080 --> 0:21:49.679 crime blodder and Randy. 0:21:49.800 --> 0:21:51.760 I guess you could say this is a new age 0:21:51.840 --> 0:21:53.880 kind of crime because it involves crypto. 0:21:54.680 --> 0:21:58.119 A bunch of people from Tennessee thought it would be 0:21:58.119 --> 0:22:01.280 a good idea to come to California and strike it 0:22:01.400 --> 0:22:07.480 rich by kidnapping crypto bros. Go oh for more on this, 0:22:08.040 --> 0:22:10.720 We got a kpix in the Bay. 0:22:10.760 --> 0:22:13.400 Three men from Tennessee accused of traveling to the Bay 0:22:13.440 --> 0:22:18.080 Area to kidnap wealthy cryptocurrency holders. Katie Nielsen has the 0:22:18.280 --> 0:22:22.199 wild details on the home invasions and why crypto is 0:22:22.240 --> 0:22:23.560 such an attractive target. 0:22:24.920 --> 0:22:29.119 I mean because it's untraceable, because we pretty much invented 0:22:29.240 --> 0:22:33.440 a form of currency that is perfect for criminal activity. 0:22:34.680 --> 0:22:38.000 It's the new poker chips. You know, there are certain 0:22:38.080 --> 0:22:40.560 things that are a net positive or a net negative 0:22:40.600 --> 0:22:43.880 for society. How is crypto not a net negative? 0:22:45.560 --> 0:22:48.000 I'll tell you. I can't tell you the number of 0:22:48.040 --> 0:22:51.119 times people have tried to explain how crypto works. 0:22:51.119 --> 0:22:51.359 To me. 0:22:52.040 --> 0:22:54.960 I still don't understand it, so I'm a hard pass. 0:22:55.480 --> 0:22:58.400 This is all very reminiscent of the home invasion robberies 0:22:58.400 --> 0:23:00.680 that were happening in La about ten years ago. 0:23:00.960 --> 0:23:03.880 We're also nine years ago, eight years ago, seven years ago, 0:23:03.960 --> 0:23:04.719 six years ago. Fore. 0:23:04.840 --> 0:23:07.479 I can keep going. And in the valley it's been 0:23:07.520 --> 0:23:08.760 going on even longer than that. 0:23:09.240 --> 0:23:15.400 We're thieves. We're targeting influencers and celebrities who were flaunting handbags, watches, 0:23:15.840 --> 0:23:18.160 and jewelry on social media. 0:23:18.240 --> 0:23:21.720 Don't be doing that. Don't be flashing your cash. The 0:23:21.760 --> 0:23:23.320 crooks are paying attention. 0:23:23.480 --> 0:23:27.240 The new flex those who are posting their crypto wallets. 0:23:27.840 --> 0:23:30.720 If you're posting your crypto statements to show how much 0:23:30.800 --> 0:23:34.280 money you made on doge coin, someone's looking to rob you. 0:23:34.880 --> 0:23:37.880 No more flashing cash and talking trash. 0:23:37.960 --> 0:23:40.560 Dozens of pages of federal documents paint the picture of 0:23:40.600 --> 0:23:42.920 the crypto crime spree at the end of last year, 0:23:43.280 --> 0:23:48.240 as three suspects, Elijah Armstrong, Nino Chindevon, and Jaden Rucker, 0:23:48.480 --> 0:23:51.240 all from the Nashville area, came to California. 0:23:51.400 --> 0:23:54.359 Wow, it's not even Memphis trash. We're getting Nashville trash 0:23:54.400 --> 0:23:54.840 out here. 0:23:56.760 --> 0:24:01.800 Came to California for one purpose, stealing crypto. The document 0:24:01.840 --> 0:24:04.520 show they started the home invasion spree in San Francisco 0:24:04.600 --> 0:24:08.800